bart's best intercalated degree to take.

**jeffrey_leow** · 26-09-2005, 08:52 PM

hi.

would like to find out which is bart's best intercalated degree to take. meaning to say, which of the following subjects is barts best , most focused, specialty, best professors, best teaching, etc. in.

here's what barts have to offer for the year-long intercalated degree for medical students.

BMedSci Community Health Sciences
BMedSci Molecular Medicine
BMedSci Molecular Therapeutics
Clinical Materials
Experimental Pathology
Human Bioscience
Biomedical Engineering
Neuroscience
Oral Biology

does barts allow overseas students (students from foreign medicals schs) to join their students for the intecalated degree course?

**Renal** · 27-09-2005, 06:10 PM

I don't know anyone who's done all of them...

Why are you asking? Surely if someone were interested in doing a BSc they would do it in something they had an interest in?

**chrismed** · 28-09-2005, 12:50 AM

not sure where you got your list from but sports science / medicine is missing from it and was definitely on offer last year

**jeffrey_leow** · 28-09-2005, 04:45 PM

thats cool.

sports medicine is great.

trying to find out where offers the best teaching etc for which subject, so i know where to go for the subject im interested in.

**geezer6** · 05-10-2005, 05:44 AM

I'd say that the BMedSci's have the reputation of being the most intense, and well taught subjects, but saying that, they're all good; no-one has experienced them all, and each have different strengths in different areas. All of the intercalations are entirely different. They're BMedSci (Hons) degrees, so they're not for the people who think it's a year out from finals, and we're worked so that it's seen as failure if you get a 2.2. A third isn't even a thought. However, saying that, each of the people who are doing their degrees are saying that they're finding it fairly tough going - that the workload was something they weren't prepared for; some people haven't even started yet. Neuroscience seem to graft their students fairly hard too. Usually, the situation is "What intercalation are you doing?" "BMedSci" - followed by a sympathetic sucking through the teeth that builders make before they tell you the quote, from the person who asked the question. Tonight alone, I had to do 70 pages of reading for the next day - that's how intense my degree is, and I'm doing 7 ish modules in parallel at the moment, so I'm finding that I'm undergoing a small lifestyle change - I can no longer just go out for a casual few cheeky beers on a Tuesday, because I'll still have that pile of research papers/little bit of work for tomorrow on my desk waiting for me when I get in. I'm doing a BMedSci in Health Sciences by the way - I call it Health Sciences, because it's actually not as community/GP based as it would lead you to believe - I'd say about 2/5 of my course (my own choice) will be based around medical education as opposed to primary care and public health; my dissertation will be in medical education, as will one of my modules. As you can guess, that's my interest and my eventual career choice.

It's hard to say which BSc/BMedSci is the best - almost impossible, I'd say. However for the love of God, I can't work out what you mean by trying to work out which of the modules is the best taught, in the way that it will invariably become the degree you're most interested in - do an intercalation because you're interested in it - there's nothing worse in medical school than having to slog out for an extra year in something you don't care about, while all of your mates go off on electives, and start earning before you do. I don't get this fixation that people have with intercalations and dissection in medical school - it's almost conspiratorial. Lastly, yes, external places are open, but they're quite scant - I think it's usually one per degree, and looking at Sports Medicine, it's hotly contested, what with being the only proper Sports Medicine intercalation in the country, as I see it.